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A new way of looking at molecular motors

...stem will help other researchers address important biomedical puzzles more precisely. "We hope our work will help scientists ask the right questions and perform the right kind of experiments on myosins," Foth said. "In the long term, that could lead to new drug targets being discovered more quickly." Molecu...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...diseases. Pfizer, the NIH and other public/private biomedical research interests have complementary missions gre...riants is one of the highest priorities of current biomedical research. "Virtually all diseases have a hereditary component, transmitted from parent to child th...

Georgia Tech accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster

... the Study of Systems Biology merges Dr.Skolnick's biomedical research expertise with IBM's high-performance computing capabilities to create a brand new supercomputer. The new supercomputing cluster running Linux will be among the fastest in the world, and one of the most powerful among research universities i...

Scientists discover a genetic switch that links animal growth and cancer

...enorhabditis elegans, an important animal model in biomedical science, the researchers discovered that a tumor suppressor known as PTEN also functions to keep the animal in a waiting state by blocking cell growth when food is absent. If these animals hatch from their eggs without any source of nutrition, they ...

NHGRI announces new sequencing targets

...igh-quality DNA samples, the organisms' promise as biomedical models, and the presence of unique, innovative biological processes that may have contributed to the human genome over the course of evolution. Such comparisons between mammalian genomes represent one of the most effective ways to pinpoint the rough...

Stanford/Packard scientist's data-mining technique strikes genetic gold

...uage System, which consists of more than 1 million biomedical concepts, to vastly simplify the computerized sorting of the thousands of microarray experiments submitted to databases each year. Without such a system, valuable information will simply be lost as the results pile up. The National Institutes of Heal...

Illinois pig to make history as source of first complete swine genome

..., researchers expect that comparisons will lead to biomedical advances, including pig-to-human transplants and d...d, donated and cloned to develop genetic tools and biomedical models. The USDA grant -- issued through its National Research Initiative -- also recognizes the su...

Wisconsin scientists find a way to make human collagen in the lab

...useful protein, collagen has defied the efforts of biomedical researchers who have tried mightily to synthesize it for use in applications ranging from new wound-healing technologies to alleviating arthritis. The reason: Scientists were unable to synthesize the human protein because they had no way to link the ...

NJIT engineer poised to take stem cell research a step forward

Treena Arinzeh, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology ... Working with Michael Jaffe, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry at NJIT, Arinzeh will make what are known as nano-scaffolds. Scaffolds are...

Nanotechnology may find disease before it starts

...u, a study co-author and an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Ohio State University. "We ultimately want to identify disease at its cellular level, at its very earliest stage." The study is in the current issue of the journal Physics in Medicine and Biology. The researchers injected a solution ...

Cell barrier shows why bird flu not so easily spread among humans

... pioneering human hosts to other humans has been a biomedical puzzle. Now, a study of cells in the human respir... to become the type of flu pathogen most feared by biomedical scientists. "No one knows whether the virus will evolve into a pandemic strain, but flu viruses con...

New RNAi tools enable systematic studies of gene function

... domain will be demonstrated by the many important biomedical discoveries that will stem from them." ...

Chemical warfare agent detection technology used to treat lung disease

...e of IMS measurement within the pharmaceutical and biomedical fields. Alongside Professor Colin Creaser from Nottingham Trent University he will lead a consortium of experts and industrial partners, who will be evaluating DMS and IMS potential in areas such as high-speed separations of complex mixtures and stru...

'Bad' enzymes may wear white hats after stroke

...fellows are medical students who are interested in biomedical research. The fellowships support a year of research, usually between the second and third years of medical school. The program is designed to encourage medical students to become physician-scientists. Just after a stroke--a temporary loss of blood ...

UW scientists unravel critical genetic puzzle for flu virus replication

...production. The work is especially critical as the biomedical community and governments worldwide develop strategies to cope with the prospect of an avian influenza pandemic. "We've found that the influenza virus has a specific mechanism that permits it to package its genetic materials" as it creates its infe...

Carbon nanotube absorption measured in worms, cancer cells

...behaviors of carbon nanotubes in environmental and biomedical applications," Petersen said. ...

Patterns in genome organization may partially explain how microbial cells work

...at UCSD who is currently an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia. He said the surprising organization begs the question of what it means. The sequence order of bacterial genomes most likely affects the way in which the DNA is compressed, often more than 1,000-fold, to fit ...

Infection 'alarm' yields clues to immune system behavior

... Levchenko, a Johns Hopkins assistant professor of biomedical engineering and senior author of the paper. "Our analysis may help drug companies solve problems with the regulation of immune response levels, and do it in a smart way." In particular, Levchenko's team looked at the innate immune response, a locali...

Rare Tibetan antelope listed as endangered

..." said lead engineer Stephen Smith, a professor of biomedical engineering at the Pratt School. Optical endoscope...aduate Kathryn Sullivan and associate professor of biomedical engineering Patrick Wolf, all of Duke. ...

3D ultrasound device poised to advance minimally invasive surgery

..." said lead engineer Stephen Smith, a professor of biomedical engineering at the Pratt School. Optical endoscope...aduate Kathryn Sullivan and associate professor of biomedical engineering Patrick Wolf, all of Duke. ...

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